7 Responses to “Is This iPhone Roland TR-808 For Real?”  

1. 1 kent williams on Dec 20th, 2007 said:

   Um… background image? How hard is it to put an image on an iPhone?

   Obviously not functional.

2. 2 Andy on Dec 20th, 2007 said:

   I agree with Kent. iPhone does not have the necessary platform to support any type of musical creation. Maybe in the future? Wouldn’t be bad if you caught some inspiration while at work or school.

3. 3 Vergel E on Dec 20th, 2007 said:

   Now if it was a tr-909… you might have had me. Even if it was an 808 it still wouldn’t have proper midi timing without some sort of converter. *wink*

   Long live the 909

4. 4 synthhead on Dec 21st, 2007 said:

   Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a little 303 and 808/909 on an iPhone?

5. 5 Me on Mar 11th, 2008 said:

   “iPhone does not have the necessary platform to support any type of musical creation”

   Funny how many know it alls there are on the net. Look around douche canoe, there are tonnes of music apps for the iphone already out there.

6. 6 Paul Fillingham on Nov 8th, 2008 said:

   OK, hands up, it was me! I couldn’t resist adding my lovely TR808 pic to my iPhone and people seemed to get very excited about it when I posted it on Flickr!

   But hey, here we are nearly a year on and it seems the iPhone does have platform support for music creation. There are all kinds of music apps available. Beatmaker is good; http://www.intua.net/products.html I also use VoiceRecorder for sketching out those ideas too.

7. 7 synthhead on Nov 8th, 2008 said:

   Paul - thanks for fessing up.

   There are all sorts of cool iPhone apps now - but you had a lot of us fooled with this.

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